Dreams, Oh Dreams

Can love come in the way of dreams?

Or does love lift you up, making you more capable / motivated to achieve those dreams?

I think it’s both.

When in love, though, I feel like both people in a relationship cannot achieve their dreams. One has to sacrifice. One has to be the lifter, smiling, being strong for the one on the path to success.

But how is this decided? Who lifts? Who gets lifted?

Does it just fit in traditional roles of men achieving and women taking the backseat?

Or can two people actually assess the situation -

Who is closer to achieving their dream?

Who has more potential?

Who is more capable?

Can it be that a woman is already halfway there but does’t say it out? Instead, she just quietly swallows her pride and lets her man “do his thing”?

Can it not be the other way around?

Can they not take turns?

Let the one closer to the finishing line run his/her race first, while the other cheers them on.

And then they switch roles later?

Can two people really devote themselves to each other and their dreams at the same time?

It’ll be hard for me to believe if you said yes.

But time will tell.